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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8582716" data-attributes="member: 907">I'm pretty sure I've seen one developer mention a few years back (might have been Mearls, but I'm not sure) that the reason there are so few vulnerabilities is that they make things too easy. Doubling damage is much too strong to use other than in very special circumstances.Also, most of the cases where you have resistance to &quot;Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Silvered&quot; or the equivalent aren't meant to be creatures that are extra vulnerable to silver attacks. I'm not sure it was a thing in AD&amp;D, but I think the silver thing with devils in particular was added in 3.5e, where low-level devils had DR penetrated by &quot;silver or good&quot; weapons, mid-level just had &quot;good&quot;, and high-level ones needed &quot;silver and good&quot; weapons. Same thing with demons and cold iron. I think the only large-scale monster type where an actual vulnerability would be appropriate are fey, who are supposed to shun and fear cold iron.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8582716, member: 907"] I'm pretty sure I've seen one developer mention a few years back (might have been Mearls, but I'm not sure) that the reason there are so few vulnerabilities is that they make things too easy. Doubling damage is much too strong to use other than in very special circumstances. Also, most of the cases where you have resistance to "Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Silvered" or the equivalent aren't meant to be creatures that are extra vulnerable to silver attacks. I'm not sure it was a thing in AD&D, but I think the silver thing with devils in particular was added in 3.5e, where low-level devils had DR penetrated by "silver or good" weapons, mid-level just had "good", and high-level ones needed "silver and good" weapons. Same thing with demons and cold iron. I think the only large-scale monster type where an actual vulnerability would be appropriate are fey, who are supposed to shun and fear cold iron. [/QUOTE]

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